Cover art for VI.A The Sisters by James Joyce

VI.A The Sisters

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VI.A The Sisters Lyrics

Arabian nights,
serial stories,
tales within tales [522.05; see also S&C below],
to be continued [626.18],
desperate story telling,
one caps another to reproduce a rambling mock-heroic tale (L. G.) Scharazad's feat impossible.
Once upon a time [020.23-24].
So they put on the kettle and made tea and if they don't live happy that you and I way [332.02-04]
there was a certain convent full of fowls,
priest after peck kisses W's cunt bless you, my girl, pray for me:
1001 Nights [see also S&C below],
Decameron,
Interpreters = at point of death,
Story of the invalid pensioner:
the story of the pious haberdasher in heaven:
the story of how Buckley shot the Russian General:
the story of Tristan and Isolde [113.18-19]:
the story of the house of the 100 bottles [380.15-16; see also Eolus below]:
the story of the Methodist minister of Monkstown:
in the name of the poker and of the tongs when the child is christened we'll all sing songs:
Fable's brother (a fool) [526.15]:
gape of the cave [16.3]:
infidels (RC):
stout of spear: blanch of blade:
abuse her maidenhead [547.1?]:
the boy (Jesus) at whose name all knees shall knock together:
line womanhood's treasure,
wee of waist and hefty of hip:
sofa of softness:
a dogsbark off:
a simpleton's error must be repeated:
going round about his holy house = squadpushing:
admired with vast admiration:
whose heart I broke (God preserve him):
sniffed the zephyrs of health:
she tossed on the couch of separation and her eyes were blackened by the punch of sleeplessness:
read & understood:
50th day now when he sneezed:
violent the people:
chief of populace (beggar):
W made of crooked rib, straighten you break her [38.31?]:
road long as the strophes of Omar:
a bowl of merest pine:
fish stinks first at head, oak withers at top: Ireland's men:
the effeminate one (tonsured one):
I am a judge:
went out under him (died):
cock's ill = God's will:
Fatimah the [word illegible]:
affected to the service of:
Silver key (LSD) [433.32]:
wail is wishing [?]:
I will bring food:
gen. manager = God:
Allah trust thy nose:
his breast was broadened.
multiplied words:
daughters of the [word illegible]:
twins of face (fesse, yeux):
queen of teatable & W.C.:
no harm in that, said Manfred:
Begin a story of A & B, then B & C, C & D.
She sat on the face of many a smiling countryside:
answered the gentle, the male:
slept between blankets [578.9-10]:
she introjuiced Angostura bitters:
house of son's rest [475.23]:
an accident happened:
girl's school:
who? who but—- 25 chair [word illegible] sat down upon 25 chairs.
fistshadow,
chinoise,
I'd be surprised if he had,
blue trout musclemans[?],
waybash R [202.22?],
bottle was in back porch,
royal pair [275.15],
gingko fulgaration [242.29]),
a smuggler for life [247.30],
△ logs came up all standing [242.29-30],
unchartered rock [254.18-19],
let loose dove when Q passes,
perfect like an unknown lover,
cell bridges,
K of Sp--'s daughter,
under influence of a bhang,
betweenly [247.30]
in another place,
seadrome,
felix,
at Belshazar's,
finster oh allhorn,
etna,
Prendregast [144.6],
married to writing [146.21-22],
lugger,
inured to,
spellbound [278.9],
addressed girl's school $E,
D the elder,
[ ran away at 6 [171.4?],
love is unhappy round I's neck,
$E burns will, flood abates,
European High Commissioner,
Dopple Q C,
human chain extends [254.9],
bore a daughter,
expurge trade,
tuck shop,
the Maid,
why did you look,
[ broke parole amice,
I remember you saying (il y a 2#)
capsized hat,
Bryzance[?],
sums about apples,
abbaco,
Hosty sings about pub,
formula,
discontinuous orbit,
soccer, soggart,
shyly bawn [252.21],
rustic brogue,
marriage with arrow,
good & pretty,
set Seine on fire,
I hate him,
ridewheel,
Brian $E,
archabbot lums,
a gas consumer,
four arms $E,
100,000 souls,
upper 10,
Trinidad shell cocoa,
$E has a block at Morgen's & a hatache [127.30-31]
all the afterlurch [127.3l],
Kappa Piedersen [221.29-30],
arth the onely,
cobbler bulk [60.29, 265.12, 357.19],
John's Larme & Jamesy's gait [140.32, 373.25-26, 521.13-14],
the more he grows on one,
wayleaves,
silo,
tealofts,
web goods [255.8],
gantry $E,
the pens,
marble mantles,
boulter's bull,
reindeer pelt,
aubrey mon cairngorm gagman,
traffic tower,
grand total,
mother of a bitch,
humpy rumpy rigsdag dumpy,
sheets & sheets of rain,
weather bitten [255.6],
now in nationel[?] cruet stand,
bulrushes [207.3, 494.19],
$E orders clean hands for dinner,
dept of the Liffey,
stand for any W after the Tarara boom decayed [247.28],
Ʌ give I to E,
J.S. runs away after J.J.
This is the book of D. D's book
hip artillery,
golgoth,
1 rock Mt,
east side,
skin rug,
try a rival blush with,
sits for E. Dublin
walk on my shadow,
dangerous customer,
wish column,
our species,
member of party,
Nowlan,
a span of oxen [18.32?],
$E says all came out of 1 egg,
work of several fathers,
Jonathan Bowdler,
peacock skirt,
coloured heels,
how many bees in bonnet,
teter

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